Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael:
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from December 11, 2015

Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Dance away the crazy with a radio party, every Friday 3-7pm (ET). Now until further notice. This week, Uncle Michael's Topeka Sound System presents "So Shall Dis Dancing" — nonstop positive vibrations from the islands.

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Know what? Points for acknowledging (so we know dead air is not our ComCast account come due or something)
...& for not spewing endless nervous self-conscious prattle drawing more attention to the awkwardness & then how awkward *that* is - &tc. &tc. &tc. - as if you were unaware that a bunch of people were actually out here listening. Say no more.

I was once waiting to do a substitution DJ spot w/a DJ on before me whose show I'd never heard before/didn't know - and he would play one side of a 45, flip it over & cue the other side and play it, really slowly - not at all gracefully. Apparently had been doing this forever.

A performing friend of mine believes in and enforces a philosophy/policy of "just keep going" when error occurs -- quick acknowledgement, if any, and move on. No rigamarole, no silly or abject spotlighting of it, no delay.

I would not even mind any nervous prattle. Of course, if it were me, I would not be able to stop myself from prattling, so I would prattle to the audience like this: " okay .. . almost . ... just a another moment here ... sorry ... oopsydaisy! ... okay here we go everyone!"

@still b/p haha. when i drummed in a lounge band composed mostly of people who couldn't play their instruments, that was the band leader's one direction to me: "no matter what happens, just keep going".

I say yes, UM, but have to ask her. She also does a DJ shift on community radio and occasionally lets a quiet moment happen as she regroups or straightens out a cue mishap, or asks listeners to talk among themselves.

hey @V Priceless - I find that using the streaming links on the actual DJ playlist page seems to work like the old days (as opposed to the links from the homepage which have been glitchy for me sometimes). If that helps at all.

Still, what about:A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!